July 30


Amber pages


Born today in 1511, 
Giorgio Vasari, chronicler of renaissance art




and in 1751 Mozart’s sister - 
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia officially, but known to her teachers as Marianne, to friends and family as Nannerl, and to posterity as "who?" - an even more brilliant composer and musician than her younger brother, only she was a girl, so her parents forbade her. Click here for the full calumny.


in 1818 Emily Brontë, though she too, being female, was prohibited from a public life - she published pretending to be a man, as Ellis Bell







in 1898 Henry Moore






and in 1940 Clive Sinclair, whose invention of the ZX Spectrum computer started this universal dependence on technology in the first place.




not a bad day for Homo Sapiens, an even better one for Femina Poetika.





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